Location: Detroit Registered: 7/23/2006
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Dual Booting Do you have to install all the programs under both operating systems? or can you install it under one and be able to access the games or files using the other operating system?
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Micah Bryan
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dual booting is basically partitioning your drive to run 2 different operating systems. once you have installed those operating systems, you would then install your other software while logged into whichever operating system the software was written for.
Location: South Bend, IN Registered: 4/14/2006
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The only way you can get buy with accessing programs in both places is if you do some sort of virtualization. virtual pc is a free virtualization product you can use for windows and it may allow you to go both ways but i am not sure. Most do not allow you to do that. Even if you install windows xp on one hd and vista on another....many programs need registry setting in order to run so you have to install on both hds.
Location: South Bend, IN Registered: 4/14/2006
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that depends on if you are trying to run the program across...just running an os in virtualization and programs installed in that usually works really well. I have never had a problem in parallels unless it is graphically intensive (games). All apps seem to work fine including visual studio.
Location: Detroit Registered: 7/23/2006
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I am having problems dual booting Windows vista and windows xp pro. When I installed one the other one was still on the other hardrive but was not giving me an option to boot with that one. i then finally got it to give me both options but when i tried to boot to the one that I installed first it would always say a file was corrupt and would have to be installed again. I looked up how to do it and did it that way but for some reason it is not dual booting. Can anyone help here?
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Micah Bryan
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I'm not sure if this is the same or not. But I remember that I was able to dual boot with Linux on XP Home. And then Byerspc tried it on his computer, which had XP Pro and it wouldn't let him partition that space. Don't know if that could have anything to do with it but I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to make it so that you can only partition the hard drive once and not be able to re-partition without a total format.
Location: Detroit Registered: 7/23/2006
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I have tried that but it still doesn't work. I have tried it the opposite way and that didn't work. It keeps saying one file is corrupted and needs to be reinstalled and once I do that the other Operating System does the same thing.
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